[Beso]

Top flat of a 5 story, kitchen with massive windows facing out to the rest of the flats. Metal sink with draining boards. An old washing machine thing that needed wooden tongs to get he clothes out, that used to sit at your naked back, absolutely fantastic for the heat from the steam coming out your grandads suit and braces being boiled to death in this contraption.

Yeah, scrubbed down by my school dinner granny mamie robson as a nipper. Got the tongs rattled on the counter a few times for wriggling to much that the water spilt.

Auld papa, tucker robson, getting the dominoes and cards oot on the wee table..the wee poofie(see LTs pic) for me and ma scrubbed doon body, aw fresh in ma Jamie's..cheese on toast through the week, biscuits and hot chocolate at the weekend for supper...mother n father working extra hours to pay for us four kids in the 70s.

Gin rummy was the game of choice, brilliant fun on a saturday night, cause I would be ball boying for the local rugby club, and my grandad would be taking the money of people going into the stand.


Now I say stand, but it held about 200 tops, steps at either side, probably 8 steps at the most..so auld tucker, my grandad. He did one side, and had an leather pouch, like todays manbags, fastened at the front.


Eh..aye..yeah..

So like, the saturday nights, 4 years on from being scrubbed down in the sink by my granny, when auld tucker, the gurkhas pal came back from being in the bar, whilst me the ball boy at 7 to 11 year old had gone back to ma grannies after the game, the dominoes came oot, and the 2p coins.

When he came back from the war, he was a janitor in the local high school, and a labour, as well as the beat papa you could imagine.

I ended up letting him down, which I may tell you about if you've ever been washed in sink.

[Beso]

I wish he was still alive, cause ma wee sister(who's photo I deleted In a huff from my CP) has just been promoted to a directors role that gathers 90k a year.

And she was being scrubbed next to me I the sink.

[Oliver_W]

Only until we got a dishwasher

[Cherie]

No but in a tin bath by my grandma

Congrats to your sister

[Beso]

Originally Posted by Cherie

No but in a tin bath by my grandma

Congrats to your sister

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[Crimson Dynamo]

yes i remember being bathed in the sink in East Kilbride

[Cherie]

Have you ever thought about writing a memoir Parm you have a great way with words..?

[Beso]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Have you ever thought about writing a memoir Parm you have a great way with words..?

Me and the wee sis often discuss that.


She would write it...and there is 5 decades worth already.

[Beso]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

yes i remember being bathed in the sink in East Kilbride

Ach well, he was dead for a week buy the time it took me to rob 40 quid out the envelope of money he had left my granny to bury him..

What a **** I was at 17.

[Crimson Dynamo]

I also had my mouth washed out with carbolic soap

[smudgie]

No.
But I occasionally washed both my kids in the kitchen sink when they were tiny.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

I also had my mouth washed out with carbolic soap

Josy?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Josy?

[rusticgal]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Only until we got a dishwasher

[rusticgal]

Originally Posted by parmnion

I wish he was still alive, cause ma wee sister(who's photo I deleted In a huff from my CP) has just been promoted to a directors role that gathers 90k a year.

And she was being scrubbed next to me I the sink.

Good for her....

[bots]

yes, i was washed in the sink, and i had to wash my mouth with soap when i called my brother a naughty word

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

yes, i was washed in the sink, and i had to wash my mouth with soap when i called my brother a naughty word

Josy strikes again

[Alf]

Youtube video

[arista]

Great Clip Alf


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